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to: Bodi
from: Egan Orion
date: 2002-10-31 19:09:34
subject: Re: Thanks for the help (Mandrake 9)

From: Egan Orion 

Did you select 3-D Acceleration?  That will diminish the highest resolution
available.  Also, you might have to settle for 16bpp.

Egan


Bodi wrote:
> Thanks to all that offered ideas!
>
> I tried editing the X11 config file, no joy - the stuff I tried changing
> didn't work, and there are a lot of lines of numbers that I can't tell what
> they are doing.
>
> I tried the cdrom boot image, and was looking for what was causing the
> failure (bad floppy drive?) before I read Martin's post about the possible
> bad image ... what's a BADZ5 by the way??
>
> After the floppy failed to work, I updated the bios and after that the CD
> boot worked fine. I'm at 800x600 which looks crappy, I plan on another pass
> to try out some different refresh rates at 1024x768. I presse
"OK" after the
> 800x600, I expected to be able to try a few more but the installer just
> proceeds from there. ctrl-alt-+ will reduce the resolution but not increase
> it now.
>
> Thanks again,
> Dave (still learning)
>
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